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Asked: 2026-06-16T05:00:31+00:00

I’ve been using GIT for a couple of weeks now and trying to understand

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I’ve been using GIT for a couple of weeks now and trying to understand how to switch branches without commiting files. This is what I have done.

  1. Cloned a git repository and have a local master branch.
  2. Created a new local branch (Branch2) which is based on a remote branch.
  3. Made changes to 2 files in the master branch.

What I want to do now is switch from master to Branch2.
The changes I made to the master branch are for local dev purposes only and should never be committed.
But when I try to do this in eclipse (i.e I double click on the local branch I try to switch to) it keeps telling me that there are uncommitted changes and I need to commit, stash or reset.

Can anyone tell me how i can make a change to a local file and have git ignore this change so that I don’t get prompted with this message?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you don’t want the changes to be ever made public you should just commit them in your own feature branch and not on the master branch.
    You can create a new branch, give it a name that reflects the changes, maybe prefix is with something like “experimental-” and then commit to that branch before switching to your other branch.

    You can use git stash to stash your changes, or use git stash to commit them directly to a new branch as mentioned by Ege Akpinar.

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